"Peaches Geldof's heroin use likely caused her death."
Really? In other news, rain causes the flowers to grow. I understand why Byrne wrote what she did. Previous toxicology reports were inconclusive about the cause of Geldof's death on April 7, but the most recent one has stated the presence of drugs in her system. But a bare-bones, lazy, simplistic lead? I mean, how about something like "Medical authorites announced Tuesday that heroin was the cause of the death of 25-year-old Peaches Geldof."?
Anyway, on to other things of higher importance. I want to remember two important deaths today. The first is former Mad Magazine editor Al Feldstein, who died Tuesday at 88. Feldstein started out in comics as a teenager, with his first gig drawing (this is in the Associated Press' words) "background foliage for Sheena, Queen of the Jungle." (I never knew such a job existed.) He took over Mad in 1956 and was responsible for accentuating the presence of iconic goofball Alfred E. Neuman on the publication's covers. He left the magazine in 1984 and retired to a llama ranch (whoo!) north of Yellowstone National Park.
My second memoriam is for actor Bob Hoskins, who died Tuesday at 71 after a case of pneumonia. He had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2012. Most remember him as the human star of the obnoxious and over-rated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? but I'll choose to focus on his role as "Spoor" in one of my favorite films, Terry Gilliam's 1985 classic Brazil.
To remember Hoskins, I'll leave you a link to this post written by his daughter Rosa about the life lessons her father taught her:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616791/Actor-Bob-Hoskins-dies-aged-71-following-pneumonia.html